Improvement in landau carriage-doors



E. WELLS;

Carriage Door.

No. 100.956. Patented Mairch15, 1870.

Wihwasas:

waited snow EDWARD WELLS.-OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 100,956, dated March 15, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN LANDAU CARRIAGE-DOORS.

. The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

in the county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Landau Carriage-Doors and I do hereby declare the following,

when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent in- Figure 1, the outside of the upper portion of the door and door-frame;

Figure 2, a vertical central section, Showing the sash dropped; and in Figure 3, the same raised.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of Landau carriage-doors, for the support of the sash.

Heretofore, the supports for the sash have extended but part way from the body of the door to the top of the frame, so as to fold down and meet at the center.

This construction, as is well known, forms no support for the sash at the top, and when the door is open and the sash up, the appearance is anything but h'nished; further, the supports extending but half way up the length of the sash, the upper end of the support forms, as it were, a pivot, on which the shaft turns 'to be thrown out when raised from its recess in the door, consequently, aconsiderable space is required for the movement of the top of the sash; again, to support the sash a spring is necessarily introduced in the groove of the supports to bear against-the sash, which makes the construction expensive, and the liability to get out of order very great, as the springs are easily broken.

To overcome these and other ditficultics is the objectof my invention, which consists in the construction of the side pieces,'so as to extend the full height of the door, and fold down the one over the other.

A is the body of the door.

B B, the door-posts proper.

. C C, the extension of the posts hinged to the part B D D, the two parts of the door-frame top hinged to the part C, and secured together at the center, all in the usual manner for Landau carriages.

E is one part and F the other part of the folding part of the door, the parts hinged respectively to the door at e and f, so that the part F folding down, the partE folding above it will lie, as seen in broken lines, fig. 1, into which the sash is dropped.

The hinge forthe respective folding parts must be constructed accordingly, to enable the parts to so fold.

The length of each of these parts E and F is such as to extend to the full height of the door-opening, forming when raised to the position seen in figs. 1 and 2, the door-stile, substantially similar to the door of common carriages, each of the parts E and F being provided at its edges with a projecting flange, a a, so as to form a groove in which the sash plays.

G, the sash, is fitted so as to rise and fall into the recess H in the door in the usual manner.

The width of the upper end of the folding pieces E F is about the same or little more than the thickness of the sash, so that when the sash is raised, as seen in fig. 3, the upper end will be held while the lower end is thrown out, the upper end of the parts E and F forming, as it were, a pivot, on which the sash turns, substantially in the manner as common carriages.

By this construction the sash is supported at itsex treme upper edge, and when open, with the sash up, presents the appearance of acornmon carriage-door, and the support being at the upper end, the groove in the parts 1) may be only so wide as the thickness of the sash, inasmuch as the play which is required in the common Landau carriage is hereby avoided, hence the opening over the sash,unavoidable in the common Landau carriage, is not to be found in this construction, and as the width of the partsE and F at the top may be such as to hold the sash, no spring is required to perform that otficc.

[ claim as my invention- In Landau carriage-doors, the paitsE and F, extending the full height of the door, hinged one on each side, as at c and f, arranged so as to fold one on the top-of the other,'as shown and, described.

EDWARD \VELLS.

Witness es:

A. J. TIBBITS, J. H. SHUMWAY. 

